Autograph letters signed from Lady Essex Cheke to the Earl and Countess of Manchester [manuscript], ca. 1640-1654.

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Autograph letters signed from Lady Essex Cheke to the Earl and Countess of Manchester [manuscript], ca. 1640-1654.

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Contains 5 letters, three to her daughter Essex, wife of the 2nd Earl of Manchester, and two to the Earl, commenting on the contemporary political scene, on a duel fought by her son, on the progress of the English Civil War, sending peaches and nectarines, mentioning a proposed marriage and details of the contract, her son-in-law's ill health, projected visits and the loss of Manchester's horses to the Royalists.

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Manchester, Essex Montagu, Countess of, -1658

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Cheke, Essex, Lady,

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Lady Essex Cheke was the daughter of Robert Rich, Earl of Warwick, and Penelope Devereux (daughter of the first Earl of Essex), and the wife of Sir Thomas Cheke. The daughter Essex was first married to Sir Robert Bevill of Chesterton, Huntingdonshire before her marriage to Lord Mandeville (later Earl of Manchester) in 1642. From the description of Autograph letters signed from Lady Essex Cheke to the Earl and Countess of Manchester [manuscript], ca. 1640-1654. (Folger Shakespeare Lib...

Manchester, Edward Montagu, Earl of, 1602-1671

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